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Tilman Hausherr edited comment on TIKA-4756 at 6/11/26 4:06 PM:
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No, I would have to get the file. Maybe the "actual" signature wasn't a digital
signature but just a picture?
[~willytk] use PDFBox PDFDebugger
https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/pdfbox/3.0.7/debugger-app-3.0.7.jar
and open the file like this:
!image-2026-06-11-18-05-01-275.png!
and look whether you have 6 or 7 entries and whether there is a "V" entry.
was (Author: tilman):
No, I would have to get the file. Maybe the "actual" signature wasn't a digital
signature but just a picture?
> Detecting Signatures in PDFs with AcroForm
> ------------------------------------------
>
> Key: TIKA-4756
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-4756
> Project: Tika
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: metadata
> Reporter: Willy T. Koch
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: Signature
> Attachments: image-2026-06-11-18-05-01-275.png, sigflags_sample.pdf,
> signature.png
>
>
> We see that PDFs that have an Acroform that contains a signture /Sig fields
> aren't detected by the /meta analysis. It detects the AcroForm with
> "pdf:hasAcroFormFields": "true", but nothing on the /Sig part. They are
> created directly in Adobe Acrobat which is also possible in the Free version.
> It would be very useful to also return "hasSignature": "true" (or some
> other signature: property) in these kinds of filees, so we can handle it on
> our end. We use this to exluce PDFs with digital signatures from being
> reconverted to PDF/A.
>
> When I run it through the OCRmyPDF, it flags it as digitally signed and
> exits, which is how I first noticed it.
> _ocrmypdf sigflags_sample.pdf sigflags_sample_ocrmypdf.pdf_
> _DigitalSignatureError: Input PDF has a digital signature. OCR would alter
> the document,_
> _invalidating the signature._
>
> I've attached a small sample PDF with AcroForm and Signature to reproduce the
> issue.
>
> Willy T. Koch
> Technical Product manager,
> Public 360°
> Norway
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